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'Jerseylicious' Cast Returns to Revisit Season's Highlights and Low Points

And the ongoing battles between Gigi Liscio and Tracy DiMarco reignite.

Sometimes, absence makes the heart grow fonder; sometimes—as in the case of the cast of "Jerseylicious"—it just adds fuel for the "Battlefields of the Parkway," as hostess Jessi Cruickshank characterized "Jerseylicious" on Sunday's cast reunion.

The show may be more like the countdown to an explosion, with the fuse lit during the regular season.

The show, which beings cast members together months after the show is filmed in order to rehash past battles and perhaps reopen old wounds, kicked off by recalling the night Olivia Blois-Sharpe met Gigi Liscio's ex, Frankie Buglione Jr., at a nigthclub early in the season...and the ensuing anger Liscio felt towards both. 

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"At the time, I was upset," Liscio says, trying to rise above it now.

Of course, on "Jerseylicious," it served as fuel for ongoing drama for the season.

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A discussion of how acceptable dating former boyfriends or girlfriends is in Jersey, which DiMarco said it's OK—at least, she thinks Blois-Sharpe thinks it's OK.

"She doesn't have a problem with sloppy seconds, you know?" she says.

Liscio fires the next shot on the show, asking to have DiMarco taken off stage so she can "explain" herself without being interrupted. 

"What I've been saying since the begining about Tracy is she's vindictive...she shouldn't have been hanging out with my ex-boyfriend, taking pictures," Liscio says. "If she doesn't like what you have to say, she'll friggin' sting you in the eye."

Liscio says she's most hurt because DiMarco "made other people perceive me as somebody I'm not."

With tensions raised, DiMarco returns to defend herself and respond to Liscio's comments. She tells Liscio that she needs "to learn your role and shut your mouth."

Liscio ups the ante, calling DiMarco's pending wedding to Corey Epstein "a sham" because DiMarco's parents will not be attending (later, DiMarco points out her family has chosen not to appear on "Jerseylicious"), words guaranteed to push DiMarco over the edge.

Before the producers can split them up, more than a few extensions are flying.

Just more of the drama Blois-Sharpe said she had to "take a step back from" this season. 

Where does it end?

Find out next week in the second part of the "Jerseylicious" cast reunion show.

 


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